The idea behind the Indestructible Body is about building your body to the point of being injury proof. Not only will these exercises and drills help you to prevent future injuries, but the same methods are used to rehab old and often times chronic injuries. What derails more people from …
Two Flexibility Workouts to Improve Your Pistol
I put up a new post at Breaking Muscle about two drills to help you improve your pistol. 2 Flexibility Drills: The Keys to Progressing Your Pistol The pistol is one of the best bodyweight exercises for leg training. Even the average person can work up to repping out two-legged …
Got My Front Splits
If you follow me on Facebook you may have already seen that I did this a couple weeks ago. But I decided to shoot a video showing it. Its not easy…yet…But its there, so my flexibility training has been going well. The side splits are still a ways off, but …
8 Ways To Improve Vitality
How do you become filled with life and vitality instead of feeling worn-out and tired. In this video and article I’ll talk about eight categories to improve vitality: Food Water Air Movement Sleep Stress Beliefs Excitement Most people do pretty well in some of these, but we need to work …
PR Report 1-18-14
This one is much the same as last week’s. I’m really only working on three things right now: splits, one arm chins and kettlebell snatches. In the past, I, and many others have written about training the full body, the moves you should do, etc. Like doing an upper body …
PR Report 1-10-14
I’ve been working on my flexibility for the most part this week. I shot this video which shows me doing an isometric stretching variation in both the front splits and the side. You can see me get lower with each tense and release. I can tell I’ve already improved my …
Focusing on Flexibility
The holidays tend to throw me off to some degree every year. This year I sort of just went with it for a number of reasons. I certainly scaled back on the amount of work I was doing, although I still managed to get a few important things done. There’s …
Gymnastic Bridge Foot Placement
How you place your feet when doing bridging exercises will change up the difficulty of the exercise. This is especially important when you’re working on harder variations. If you are not as flexible as you’d like to be, the easiest position is to get your heels up and just use …
Steve Atlas Seminar Review
This past week I had the opportunity to attend a workshop held by Steve Atlas. The day was basically split up into three segments. The first was the body practice. In this was a series of a bunch of bodyweight flowing exercises. Most were simple. A few were complex. It …
How Important is Flexibility?
It’s the most important thing… Or it’s not that important at all… Is there really one right answer? Let’s look at this belief. “You only need enough flexibility to get around your daily life plus a little extra to spare.” Well, the same could be said of strength or conditioning …
Podcast: Feel Like a Billion
On this week’s podcast I discuss my brand new course, How to Feel Like a Billion. [display_podcast] Why a Habitual Routine is Best The Compounding Factor built into this Routine Why my Energy Work is better than yours… Maintaining and Improving in less than 30 seconds – Is it possible? …
The Survey Results
Last week I put out a short survey regarding what you do. Well, the results are in and I thought it would be best to share them all with you, along with my comments about the appropriate areas. Before we dive into the results you have to understand that this …
Press Handstand Training
There is one move that has eluded me for a long time. But I am making progress towards it and that is what this article is all about. Here I’ll be giving you two exercises with variations for press handstand training. When I refer to a press handstand I specifically …
Contortionist Back Bending Skills
I wouldn’t say my backbend is anywhere close to most contortionists. But I have achieved a good amount of bridging skills over the years. If you want to take your bridging skills even further, then these are the people you need to learn from. Most of my bridging has focused …
Contortion Training
Contortion is closely tied to hand balancing in many ways. Good flexibility is needed for hand balancing. And the most contortionist acts you’ll see a variety of handstands. Now I have no plans to become a contortionist, but perhaps we can learn a thing or two from their training. And …